How far can a director go for the sake of art?
Film director Quentin Tarantino has come under public scrutiny for how he treated Uma Thurman on the set of the Kill Bill movies. It's been said that he asked her to drive a car that wasn't up to working order for a scene at the beginning of Kill Bill, Vol. 2. The car crashed and Uma suffered serious long-term injuries. There was also a scene from the first movie where her character is being choked by a chain and Tarantino reportedly placed the chain around her neck himself and pulled a little too hard. It's a serious question, how far is it okay to go for the sake of art? Is putting an actor's health and life in danger okay because it's for a movie? There have been stories about this subject throughout the history of cinema. While filming The Wizard of Oz, wicked witch Margaret Hamilton was badly burned during a stunt in the munchkinland sequence, and original tin man Buddy Epsen was hospitalized from the makeup they used and then replaced by Jack Haley. Ed ...